Download Performance Tuning and Benchmarking Guidelines for VMware

Contents
Preface
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Terminology vi
1 Performance Tuning
VMware Workstation
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Hardware 2
Memory 2
Disks (General) 2
Disks (SAN, NAS, and RAID) 2
Networking 2
Host Operating System 3
Memory 3
Disks (General) 3
Networking 3
Services and Settings 3
Disable Unneeded Services 3
Avoid Non-Default Configuration Settings 4
VMware Workstation and Virtual Machines 5
CPUs 5
CPU Resources 5
Configuring Process Scheduling on Windows Hosts 5
Memory 5
Reserving Memory for Workstation 5
Specifying the Amount of Memory That Can Be Swapped to Disk 6
Memory Allocated to Virtual Machines 6
Memory Trimming 6
Page Sharing 7
Disks 7
Networking 8
Debug and Logging Modes 8
Turn off Debug Mode 8
Logging 8
Other Items 8
Guest Operating Systems 10
CPUs 10
UP Versus SMP HAL/Kernel 10
Idle Loops 10
Memory 11
Disks 11
Defragment Disks 12
Performance Impact of Defragmenting Snapshots and Linked Clones 12
Networking 12
Software Versions 12
Settings 13
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